THEALE, UK—Integrated with ACC Liverpool’s new interconnected sister venue, Exhibition Centre Liverpool, the 216-key Pullman Liverpool Hotel tapped Quadriga for its WiFi and smart TV system.
According to the company, the hotel was looking for a technology partner that designs and installs a converged solution offering high quality WiFi and wired Internet access across all the rooms. Also required was a TV system that would offer a better-than-home experience in the guestroom for guests and to integrate the back office functions onto a single network.
Quadriga’s Internet solution reduced the number of cables originally thought to be required, with just two running into each room, one of which was to cover a fault. The wall plates are used to connect a VOIP Telephone (provided by a Quadriga partner), the Philips Smart TV running Sensiq and a wired internet connection. According to the company, it will have no impact on the future or current network capabilities.
Jon Seal, director of technical pre-sales for EMEA, commented, “More often than not, we are finding hotels with similar requirements typically having multiple runs of cable side by side going into guestrooms for Internet, telephone and video—a mixed bag of copper and coax each supporting a separate product from various vendors on separated networks. This type of infrastructure costs more, requires multiple vendors to fix, and makes it difficult to expand or add new applications. Acting as a consultative partner we were able to roll out a complete converged solution.”